Your favourite Donna albums?
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ekentb — 21 years ago(January 19, 2005 09:22 AM)
Check out I Remember Yesterday, if you can find it. Very good album, "Black Lady" and "Take Me" are standouts. Love to Love ya Baby is 1/2 that song only, but the rest aren't bad either. My favorite, though, is Live and More. I can remember knowing every word and making moves up dancing to that album when I was a kid in the 70's. I think she deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame actually.
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TheRitz1927 — 20 years ago(May 01, 2005 04:16 PM)
I've been a die-hard fan of hers since I discovered sex in the words of Love to Love You, Baby when I was in 6th grade. Her classic disco songs remain staples of my music collection in my home and in my car. Since my daily commute is over 60 miles in each direction, she gets me to work and returns me home and keeps sleepiness from knocking on my car window!
If I had to identify my favorite Donna Summer singles, I would have to reach back and make it a tie between Love to Love You, Baby; Dinner With Gershwin; I Believe In You; and of course Last Dance. Last Dance to this day stirs up such a swell of emotions and memories that I cannot make it through the entire opus without tears.
But I have to say (after saying all that), that my favorite album has to be "Another Place and Time". Disected, APT does resemble its beginnings as the product of the British-based factory of Stock-Aitken-Waterman, but as an album it survives well. Each song blends perfectly into the next for me 45 minutes of sweet escape afterall, isn't that what music should do?
During the 1980s when all the politically-correct homosexuals were boycotting her music and calling her a traitor, her music spoke to my heart and I knew that she was my friend (although we've never met). Donna has been a true inspiration in my life through her music and her life. Her book is awesome; I find myself re-reading passages almost daily. She is the best and I'm overjoyed that she continues to bless us with her immense voice and talent!
TOOT-TOOT, HEY! BEEP-BEEP! -
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man_Place — 20 years ago(June 08, 2005 10:14 PM)My first Donna Summer album was a Christmas present in 1978. Live and More will always hold a special place in my heart. It was very rare for a disco artists to put out a live album, and one of such quality. The songs on it were faster than the album versions, so it took me some time to warm up to her first 3 earlier albums. She ROCKS in concert. She did all her "hits" at the time, as well as some Gershwin, and a song for her daughter Mimi. Then of course.. there was side 4. Some of the younger people on here can't relate to this, because when you put a cd on, you hear the whole cd. We thought of music in terms of album sides.. more than a good song or two, a great par5b4ty record had a great side. Side 4 was the MacArthur Park Suite.. MacArthur Park, One Of A Kind, Heaven Knows and a MacArthur Park reprise. 17 minutes of disco heaven. My other favorite side was on Once Upon A Time.. the trippy mix of Now I Need You, Working The Midnight Shift and Queen For A Day. I also love side 1 of Once Upon A Time: Once Upon A Time, Faster And Faster To Nowhere, Fairy Tale High and Say Something Nice. If you want to add to you Donna Summer collection and haven't yet bought Once Upon A Time, BUY IT! It's less polished than Bad Girls, but more artistically satisfying. Honorable mention to the mellow side of Bad Girls On My Honor, There Will Always Be A You, All Through The Night and My Baby Understands. It's a shame over the years more of her ballads weren't released as singles. There Will Always Be A You is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Some diva wannabe today should record it and give it the success it deserves.
GOD BLESS YOU DONNA SUMMER! -
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buby1987 — 18 years ago(April 30, 2007 10:50 PM)
I love "Love to Love You Baby" the song AND the album. I always loved the song, but I didn't get around to buying the album until last year. I like all of the songs and they also display Donna's versatility. Pandora's Box shows Donna's skill at straight ahead rock vocals, while Full of Emptiness shows how well Donna can handle a ballad.
My favorite is Bad Girls, with Once Upon a Time a close second. -
buby1987 — 18 years ago(August 29, 2007 12:34 AM)
I just bought I Remember Yesterday a mere 30 years after its first release. It is great all the way through it's a Whitman's Sampler of different musical styles. The title track has a Big Band sound, Back in Love Again sounds like the Supremes in the mid-60's, Black Lady is a bad-ass funk/rock jam, and Take Me is primo Moroder/Summer disco. That's not to mention the two singles, the Abba-meets-Phil Spector Love's Unkind, and the all-time groundbreaking classic I Feel Love.
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WarpedRecord — 21 years ago(November 11, 2004 07:43 AM)
I love "The Wanderer" and more rock-oriented albums like "Cats Without Claws." Honestly, I think Donna is a great singer, but to me, she's had a disappointing recording career. Such a great voice, but so many of her albums seem prefabricated or incomplete.